Broken earphone jack

Hi all

My kids use an old IPad 5th gen for games and to watch stuff and there was an audio splitter connected so they could both use headphones at same time, until the splitter broke and left the plug in the iPad.

so obviously the iPad thinks that headphones are still connected and try as I may I cannot manage to get the broken plug out so I can’t manage to get audio out of the speakers whatsoever I do. I even saw a really good video about putting a bit of glue on the inside of a biro inner tube to stick to the broken plug but that hasn’t worked either.

so I was wondering if there is anyway to manually make the iPad speakers override the audio.

This link suggests that it was possible but the instructions don’t work for me so I’m presuming the functionality may have changed.

https://getnotifyr.com/how-to-select-speaker-output-over-headphones-on-ipad/#:~:text=Go%20to%20Settings%20%3E%20Sounds.,So%2C%20there%20you%20have%20it!

does anyone have any bright ideas please about how I can get the speakers back in use?

Thanks so much